You're probably sick of looking at pictures of our food, so I'll try to amuse you with a regular occurrence at our house - gaming phases. Since Atari and Nintendo were phased out by the Playstations and XBoxes of the world, my gaming days have dwindled. Sure, I'll play Hexic for, oh, 2 or 3 hours at a time, but I'm just no good at the kinds of games The Kids These Days are playing. Halo and Gears of War can get off my lawn.
Tony, however, LOVES these games and is damn good at them, too. Example: in a matter of two days, he finished the game "Timeshift". Twice. And if I never hear that troll guy from "Overlord" say "You choose ALL," again, it will be too soon. The thing is, you'd never actually KNOW that he enjoys these games as much as he does, and that's because of the phases of gaming. The phases of gaming go something like this:
- 1st hour: Enjoyment.
- 2nd hour: Frustration begins to build.
- 3rd hour: Screaming that the game cheats. Followed by me walking through the house, closing windows.
- 4th hour: Difficulties in game play are blamed (loudly) on poor programming and/or shitty coding.
- 5th hour: Arguments that "I'd pass through the door if the game would let me pass through the door."
- 6th hour: Threats, including snapping the game in half, throwing the game out the window, never playing the game again, getting rid of the entire gaming system.
- In extreme cases of a 7th hour, video game cases may or may not be thrown forcefully into the sofa cushions.
I know. It sounds like fun, right? We just got "Assassin's Creed" today and we're still in the 1st hour phase. If you want to come over for a gaming party, though, you'd better hurry up.